[sdiy] 3 conductor cord and stereo jacks as patch cords

[Wheaton, Simon]

I would wire tip to tip and ring/shield to ring/shield.

Because the ring on a tip/ring/sleeve is in the same position as the sleeve in a tip/sleeve.

Simon
Canberra
AUSTRALIA

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
[mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl]On Behalf Of harrybissell
Sent: Saturday, 11 December 2004 5:13 PM
To: Peng
Cc: Synth-Diy
Subject: Re: [sdiy] 3 conductor cord and stereo jacks as patch cords

Peng wrote:
> I have a bunch of 3 conductor ( two wires and a braided shield )
> microphone cords I what to cut up for patch cords. What is the proper
> way to solder these to a mono jack ? Are there any drawbacks to using
> this type of cable ?
>
> I use one conductor for the tip, and ground the shield and the other
> conductor.  They are typically
> LOW impedance cables and have more capacitance per foot. With the
> length of patch cords, who cares !!!   How about stereo 1/4" plugs ?
> What's the proper way to connect the normal 2 wire cable ( wire and
> braided shield ) cable to a stereo plug? Drawbacks ? Kinda the
> opposite of the first question.
>
> Wires to tip and ring, shield to barrel.  No problems.
>
> H^) harry